Opinion: California’s legal corruption: Pay the politician, get the contract
The state bans pension managers from donating to the officials who oversee their money. Why doesn’t it ban everyone else who profits from public spending?
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Opinion: I teach calculus at Berkeley. Some of my students can’t do middle school math
Since the University of California abandoned the SAT and ACT, thousands of faculty say it’s admitting students who aren’t prepared for the coursework. Will UC listen?
Opinion: California’s pension funds are rigged to stick taxpayers with the bill
AB 1383 would let CalPERS and CalSTRS keep lowballing what they ask public employees to pay, leaving taxpayers to cover the gap — again.
Opinion: How one California law created 1.2 million headaches
AB 339 was supposed to stop agencies from quietly outsourcing government jobs. A year in, it has produced mostly paperwork.
Opinion: Sweden’s warning to California: Don’t tax wealth like we did
Sweden abolished its century-old wealth tax in 2007 after it punished entrepreneurship and raised little revenue. California risks making the same mistake.
Opinion: Newsom’s brand of socialism: Spend big, reward your donors
The governor has spent eight budgets expanding California’s social safety net at a record pace. The money flows back to groups that help advance his political career.
Opinion: San Francisco’s left has a growing antisemitism problem
Scott Wiener was pushed out of the Trans March last week. His opponents say it was because of his policies. Make no mistake: It was because he’s Jewish.
Opinion: The Giants have forgotten whose city this is
The baseball cap controversy shows that the team is losing more than games — it’s losing touch with the city it claims to represent.
Opinion: San Francisco invents the future — but lets other cities build it
The jobs of the next economy are quietly leaving for Arizona and Ohio. The city’s waterfront is the one place with room to keep them.
Opinion: Colin Kaepernick had the right to protest. So do the Giants’ Bible-verse pitchers.
San Francisco liberals howled when Trump tried to silence Kaepernick. Now they want to do the same thing to four pitchers they disagree with.